Noga Alon - Short CV

Noga Alon is a Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He received his Ph. D. in Mathematics at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and had visiting positions in
various research institutes including MIT, the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton, IBM Almaden Research Center, Bell Laboratories,
Bellcore and Microsoft Research. He joined Tel Aviv University in 1985,
served as the head of the School of Mathematical Sciences in 1999-2000,
and supervised about 20 PhD students. Since 2009 he is also a member of
Microsoft Research, Israel. He serves on the editorial boards of more
than a dozen international technical journals and has given invited
lectures in many conferences, including plenary addresses in the 1996
European Congress of Mathematics and in the 2002 International Congress
of Mathematician. He published more than five hundred research
papers and one book.

His research interests are mainly in Combinatorics, Graph Theory
and their applications in Theoretical Computer Science. His main
contributions include the study of expander graphs and their applications,
the investigation of derandomization techniques, the foundation of
streaming algorithms, the development and applications of algebraic and
probabilistic methods in Discrete Mathematics and the study of problems
in Information Theory, Combinatorial Geometry and Combinatorial
Number Theory.

He is an ACM Fellow and an AMS Fellow, a
member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1997
and of the Academia Europaea since 2008, and received the Erdös
prize in 1989, the Feher prize in 1991, the Polya Prize in 2000, the
Bruno Memorial Award in 2001, the Landau Prize in 2005, the Gödel
Prize in 2005, the Israel Prize in 2008, the EMET Prize in 2011,
the Dijkstra Prize in 2016,
an Honorary Doctorate from ETH Zurich in 2013 and from the
University of Waterloo in 2015.